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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: CLOUD FANTASIES, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild, rapid, dark, like dreams of threatening doom
Last Line: Uplifted toward some dread eternity.
Subject(s): Clouds
First Line: Wild, rapid, dark, like dreams of threatening doom
Last Line: Uplifted toward some dread eternity.
Subject(s): Clouds
WILD, rapid, dark, like dreams of threatening doom,
Low cloud-racks scud before the level wind;
Beneath them, the bare moorlands, blank and blind,
Stretch, mournful, through pale lengths of glimmering gloom;
Afar, grand mimic of the sea waves' boom,
Hollow, yet sweet as if a Titan pined
O'er deathless woes, yon mighty wood, consigned
To autumn's blight, bemoans its perished bloom;
The dim air creeps with a vague shuddering thrill
Down from those monstrous mists the sea-gale brings,
Half formless, inland, poisoning earth and sky;
Most from yon black cloud, shaped like vampire wings
O'er a lost angel's visage, deathly-still,
Uplifted toward some dread eternity.
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